I don’t know. Let’s ask Fox News.
Seriously, I don’t know why I bother with Fox News. Every time I think I can walk away, I just keep getting sucked right back in. Maybe it’s because I’m concerned that so many people watch it uncritically that it’s actually doing great damage to our country.
The best we can do is to teach information literacy skills to our students. Are we doing that well?
In a Venn Diagram puzzle, there are three overlapping circles, marked A, B, and C. Each circle has a different rule about who or what can go inside. The challenge is to guess the rule for each circle. You can find a more detailed explanation of Venn Diagram puzzles, along with an example, here.
Since The Tudors wasn’t on this week, I offer you this Tudor-related puzzle to hold you over until Sunday. Each of the eight people below was a member of the court of King Henry VIII.
Have you figured out one of the rules? Two? All three? Feel free to post whatever you’ve got in the comments below. Just tell us which circle you’re solving, and what the rule is.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: Circles A and B solved by Annalisa. See comments for all answers.
The ninth episode of The Tudors airs tonight on Showtime and will be replayed throughout the week. You can also view the episode On Demand.
Use the comments section of this post to discuss the episode. Any comments I may have will be posted in the comments section as well.
WARNING: Comments may contain further discussion of the show, including potential spoilers. Click through only after viewing the episode. Commenters may discuss this episode as freely as they like, but are asked not to spoil future episodes.
By the way, did you know that after all of Henry’s attempts to bar Mary from succession, he returned her place in the succession in his will, and she later became Queen? That’s hot.
I wouldn’t call myself a huge fan of Lost, but I find myself watching it faithfully each week. Every now and then there’s an episode that makes me glad I do. Last week’s episdode, “Greatest Hits,” was such an episode.
A character was planning a suicide mission in order to save the rest of the castaways. Throughout the episode he was making a list of the five best moments of his life. As he added each item to the list, we flashed back to that moment in his life. He called it his “Greatest Hits” list. What a wonderful thing to do.
I’d like to invite you to make your own Greatest Hits list. What you come up with will probably be too personal to post here, but I offer you the exercise all the same.
What five moments in your life would make your Greatest Hits list?
The eighth episode of The Tudors airs tonight on Showtime and will be replayed throughout the week. You can also view the episode On Demand.
Use the comments section of this post to discuss the episode. Any comments I may have will be posted in the comments section as well.
WARNING: Comments may contain further discussion of the show, including potential spoilers. Click through only after viewing the episode. Commenters may discuss this episode as freely as they like, but are asked not to spoil future episodes.
By the way, did you know that after Edward VI’s death, Lady Jane Grey was the uncrowned Queen of England for nine days? She was the granddaughter of Princess Mary and Charles Brandon. That’s hot.
Since we’ve been talking about Ken Jennings and Jeopardy, I’ve been thinking about the Cheers episode “What is…Cliff Clavin?” in which Cliff Clavin, a postal carrier who lives with his mother, goes on Jeopardy. As a bar know-it-all, Cliff’s reputation and self-image are on the line. Guest star Alex Trebek reads off the categories:
CIVIL SERVANTS
STAMPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
MOTHERS AND SONS
BEER
BAR TRIVIA
CELIBACY
And then Cliff knows this is his game. This is his dream board.
What’s your dream board on Jeopardy? You could answer this question in two different ways. You could either choose the six categories you’re strongest in, and that you would most like to see if you were an actual contenstant on Jeopardy. (I’m pretty good with questions about Shakespeare.) Or, as in the example above, you could create a mini-autobiography by choosing six categories that sum up your personality and interests. Or maybe that’s the same list.
What categories would be on your “dream board”?
The seventh episode of The Tudors airs tonight on Showtime and will be replayed throughout the week. You can also view the episode On Demand.
Use the comments section of this post to discuss the episode. Any comments I may have will be posted in the comments section as well.
WARNING: Comments may contain further discussion of the show, including potential spoilers. Click through only after viewing the episode. Commenters may discuss this episode as freely as they like, but are asked not to spoil future episodes.
By the way, did you know that King Henry VIII was ultimately succeeded to the throne by a legitimate son, the nine-year-old King Edward VI? That’s hot.
The sixth episode of The Tudors airs tonight on Showtime and will be replayed throughout the week. You can also view the episode On Demand.
Use the comments section of this post to discuss the episode. Any comments I may have will be posted in the comments section as well.
WARNING: Comments may contain further discussion of the show, including potential spoilers. Click through only after viewing the episode. Commenters may discuss this episode as freely as they like, but are asked not to spoil future episodes.
By the way, did you know that Henry VIII agreed to marry his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, without meeting her, based only on a portrait he had had painted by Hans Holbein the Younger. That’s hot.
The fifth episode of The Tudors airs tonight on Showtime and will be replayed throughout the week. You can also view the episode On Demand.
Use the comments section of this post to discuss the episode. Any comments I may have will be posted in the comments section as well.
WARNING: Comments may contain further discussion of the show, including potential spoilers. Click through only after viewing the episode. Commenters may discuss this episode as freely as they like, but are asked not to spoil future episodes.
By the way, did you know that the Showtime story of Henry VIII’s sister Margaret Tudor and the aging King of Portugal is based on the real story of Henry VIII’s sister Mary Tudor and the aging King of France? The real Margaret Tudor married the King of Scotland, and spawned a line of Scottish monarchs that would ultimately inhabit the English throne as well. That’s hot.
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